Las Vegas Monarchs: Welcome

The Las Vegas Monarchs is a Baseball Club compiled of and
for the benefit of those who love the great game of baseball and wish to play
as hard as their ability allows.

While we wish to compete with top
ranked programs (not just compete but also to win) we will not do so through a
mindset based on exclusion. We will not discriminate against a player who has
the will, determination and love for the game just because he cannot throw an
eighty-mile per hour fastball, or crush homeruns with the flick of his or her
bat.

The Monarchs stand up for the
chance to compete, the opportunity to play baseball even when the player is not
the “first kid” to be picked, the biggest, fastest or strongest. We all should be given the chance to suit up and take the
field; win, lose or draw.

Those invited to join the inaugural
roster of the Las Vegas Monarchs have somewhere along the way been shunned by
the system, shut out by politics or just deemed not good enough to be chosen to play with the so called elite teams. Others have the talent, but just wished to
avoid the thought process of which the game is no longer fun but based only on
win/loss stats. We care about winning, make no mistake, but character, focus
and discipline come first in this organization. The Monarchs welcome all of the
above. We unify in our diversity.

The Las Vegas Monarchs philosophy
is built around the idea that baseball fosters important skills to be used on
and off the field, creating a set of disciplines that carry forth in your child’s
life. One of the most important to us is the ability to get along with others
despite skill level, culture, status, gender, race or affiliation. The Monarchs
are built around team, not
individuals. No one player is more important than the team itself.
If a player is under the impression that he or she is the gas that runs this
engine they are sorely mistaken. Repeated often, forgotten quickly, “there is
no ‘I’ in team”.

Like our namesake, which is
borrowed from the outstanding tradition of excellence brought to fruition by
the Kansas City Monarchs and players such as Satchel Paige and
Jackie Robinson; we come together to play baseball when many of us find
ourselves excluded from the apparent mainstream systems. Like our namesake we
shall ultimately come face to face with those that have turned us away and we
shall compete and we shall win, for we are playing a game above their
comprehension.

We play the game of acceptance,
passion, heart and we never lose when we play the game that way. We come
together to play baseball. We come together to play Monarchs Baseball.